xp This will go on for years, you know. :)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, there are better threads for the type nerds to thrash this out. back to images!
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3223860429_244c24e37c_o.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
The Blue Note album covers are a go-to, I'll just get some favorites out of the way early.
http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/gako-oku/Modern.files/Dexter2.jpg
A little bit cute, but not TOO cute, you know?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Lpkcc1bATi4/R5XrvbMNwEI/AAAAAAAAAM8/cOliCyTL1CI/s320/Horace-Parlan-Us-Three-362664.jpg
Yes.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_G9FtQLF2VFE/SA3GNC-b_LI/AAAAAAAAATU/QgJrHzrarg0/s400/cover.jpg
Yeah ok, it's better for type nerds, but this is a perfect album cover. (Helps that it's a perfect album.)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
do you know this? http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/BlueNote1/index.htm
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
is there a thread for blue note sleeves? if not, there really should be. I mean those are sort of a thing unto themselves (not that they don't belong here, there are so many great ones that they could easily consume the thread)
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Now I do. Thnks.
I think my dad had this book.
http://www.chrismasto.com/delicious/images/236
The die is plaid! Everything is plaid! What kind of a god...
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://237studio.com/images/55209.jpghttp://237studio.com/images/64168.jpghttp://237studio.com/images/49632.jpg
pirelli tires ads
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost I think that was a hot thing when my dad was a teenager, books about how AMAZING numbers are. Because if he didn't have that book, he had ten other just like it.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost Whoa, those are great
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2846521736_34f06c6ab7.jpg?v=0
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I have used the eyedropper tool to get this exact shade of orange many times:
http://www.farmidable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mccallsfurref.jpg
http://www.farmidable.com/2008/11/11/how-to-books-from-the-1950s
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
man, book companies don't even try anymore do they
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
lol at futura on that 1956 gardner book. i guess i was wrong.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
they do ok, xp: http://bookcoverarchive.com/
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
this is a book called 'henri's walk to paris' by leonore klein, illustrated by saul bass. from 1962
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1306/866660551_0f05c58ef3.jpg?v=0http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1176/866660519_76babea25a.jpg?v=0http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/866660529_49ebe56fd2.jpg?v=0http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2083543382_3f70e72b08.jpg?v=0
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
'72 but whatever - if he can get away with that, I'm going to say fuck it and post this ('73) just cuz:
http://covers.fwis.com/images/items/562.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
So perfectly unnerving.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno why I posted the jpeg upthread, when I could have just as easily posted this:
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2083543382_3f70e72b08.jpg?v=0
^^^short film about solar energy by saul bass
― fucken cumlord (omar little), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
this thread is a goddamn goldmine
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Not all within the specific timespan but lots are. Saves me having to put loads of Penguin covers up.http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/308973659_3ecc693cf3.jpgSee the whole thing big here
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
when did tabloid newspapers (chiefly The Sun) start using Futura (Bold Condensed) for headlines?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Maurice Binder's opening titles to Arabesque
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i5.ebayimg.com/07/i/001/2b/dc/5661_1.JPG
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://23.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkoslkrg77jEwK9DrXLo1_400.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/pumahunt/Gebrauchsgraphik5.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/bf7fc0ffaf38f5954082332e56052b23573ab416_m.jpg
Fortune used to have the greatest covers ever. Now it's just bullshit CEO....
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/8ex2fy656_3022809875_1e97bde691_o.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://dropular.net/content/_fixed/ipsa5g8mf_2965627507_2f0f0f2f15_o.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://10.media.tumblr.com/oMl5Ekkosk148ottvRs2ofGEo1_400.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://thingsmagazine.net/projects/1970s/1974%20Modern%20Economics%20-%20J.Pen.jpg
http://www.cafes.net/ditch/wilkins.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/danreisinger/09.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://crossedcombs.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/24/2382992574_d03bd649c6.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome run here ET
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
There's more, I just have to get some lunch!
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Elvis has the stash
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
caek: Treumann font is Clarendon btw
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair is interesting as it's when the first bits of 60s-era modernism leak into the pop culture stream. Half of the fair's artifacts are 50s-era illustration and half are 60s Jet Age Modern.
Examples... This:
http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/FIP/WA-00390-D%7ESpace-Needle-Seattle-World-s-Fair-Posters.jpg
versus
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/2899246248_c793377b23.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Vintage Penguin rules so hard
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/570934417_3b0bcf4567.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh Clarendon. Talk about thin line between love and hate. Can you still think a font is attractive when it's on the side of half the buses in the city advertising Starbucks' new instant coffee? Or in the TV ad for Madea Goes to Jail? (Really there are a million examples... it's fucking everywhere. It was four years ago, but now it's really out of hand.)
― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/1779218426_ee78ebbf70.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.manhattanrarebooks-modernfirsts.com/images/deighton.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://wiedler.ch/download/felix/books/451_jacket.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2273057639_9cb85d7b8a.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Despite Shepard Fairy, Soviet poster design is still brilliant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594117941491/
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I still think of Clarendon as National Park signage font. Fortunately the NPS has started switching away from it.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link